Paul Swearingen: 10 books

Carla can’t seem to come to grips with her life and seems always to be running away from it and in conflict with persons who always tell her what to do. She’s threatened after a minor misunderstanding; she finds herself in a fast car with a drug runner; she saves her romantic rival’s life with a crusty steak knife. In the end she proves that short Hispanic girls can have fun, too.

16-year-old Mary Alice is in trouble with her parents because she has been concentrating more on her social life than her schoolwork, and she has until the semester to bring up her marks to at least 80% in all subjects. She vows to improve, and then goes Christmas shopping with her best friend Lil....

A black teenager is forced to move to a small town but realizes that with the help of new friends he may be able to leave the bad influences behind and concentrate on football. But part of his past catches up with him. Then temptation, in the forms of a potential burglary and a till-tapping opportunity, presents itself – and he knows he has tough choices to make.

Cherié thinks she’s set to coast through her senior year in high school … until her principal blackmails her to take over editorship of the yearbook. She discovers that neither her principal nor her advisor are what they are supposed to be. She nearly gets creamed in a hallway fight, but her chubby guardian angel makes sure that she survives and uncovers some unusual events.

Being newspaper photo editor when you’re only a sophomore may sound like a dream, but to Arianna the nightmare is just starting, with her little sister an unwilling participant. She discovers that her friend will never be her lover, her potential boyfriend really is a hunk, and most importantly that she can swing a tree branch and a length of iron pipe when she needs to defend herself.

An ordinary history assignment leads Arianna to an old country school building on a Civil War skirmish site, and her younger sister alerts her to a missing girl. Gradually she realizes that the building houses a mystery, and the surrounding grounds must give up their Civil War secrets so that she...

Lindi isn't sure she'll even survive the first day of high school, what with her main middle school tormenter seated behind her in one class. But eventually she confronts him, to his astonishment. Little does she know, however, that he will be the least of her problems during the school...

One day, Dane woke up, but no one else did. Or so he thought.But the neutron bombs hadn't killed everyone, as just when he was getting used to being alone in the world, two sisters showed up to change everything again. And yet they weren't the only ones to survive, or to die, and...

Alex is striving to become a better writer so she can be assured of having her submission to her high school literary magazine published, so she turns to the Internet to find help. However, someone else nearby finds HER, and she realizes that she's being stalked.

Adam Frederick is completely blown away every time his erstwhile girlfriend, Charlene, stretches and threatens to bust the buttons of her blouse. And so is everyone else in class, including the teacher. Nevertheless, Adam thinks he has a chance with Charlene. Little does he know that her attention...